From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Files that begin with a period Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:32:15 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224521529 18601 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2008 16:52:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:52:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Eli Zaretskii" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 20 18:53:10 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Krt1J-0008ND-7u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:33:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43338 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Krt0E-0008PJ-18 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:32:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Krszh-0008M4-CO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:32:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Krszg-0008Lm-Fy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:32:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41972 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Krszg-0008Lj-8Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:32:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gx0-f10.google.com ([209.85.217.10]:55541) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Krszg-00034Z-1l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:32:16 -0400 Original-Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so3669057gxk.18 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:32:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=3nKb+BTyoBDLflH+qBUNSZs+0ofXA7CErgyk4uh2Qe0=; b=dcZqij8lCM2f/7DugVK9682BiYvwa1Bg4DQ89t4uvXimuKB5Ob5j1WaGI9FPyIv+K1 3k1l1bWbZw5fP3FJ1ApXHuh3slUEzD6TeS/i+mtt6zAWUdQNdo5srbOH0euNaWTsc22r XNk58QmRjMiUpVE0M+VnP73o5HNeYbUogApoU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=BUcQ0uuayHoQ8PuMQyRQlwIWdH2NsFQb2C9fN1jqeiukDn1VxGAW5S5oua6kw1IiAo DRFPnBpsnhIK7kAPl62EzVA3M+zOz4eWcU8jA7LAn+XYAOEKv6dNK22fZv6n2kIIv1EQ 1sbI0gHTpXpJIpeCLibLXZRvvYQbzdy6rB5AM= Original-Received: by 10.100.126.7 with SMTP id y7mr6722365anc.116.1224502335452; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:32:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.100.13.13 with HTTP; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:32:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:104672 Archived-At: On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 13:19, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I'm okay with this change, but I think we shouldn't rename the > constant. There's no need to, really, and doing so introduces > gratuitous back-compatibility problems. I'm quite agnostic about the names, but a *great* deal of the thread was choosing appropriate ones, and XEmacs compatibility and prior art were involved. Stephen J. Turnbull participated in the discussion and was willing to add the function to XEmacs, IIRC. Juanma